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"The cat in gloves catches no mice."
-- Benjamin Franklin
News of NoteHomeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah HappeningsAbbas: No Progress in Peace Talks With IsraelHamas wants Arabs to broker Palestinian accordUS military downplays remarks on al-Qaida's demiseOther Military NewsUSS Intrepid, war museum, faces new peril — moneyVeterans and national cemeteries by the numbersWorldwide WackosIsraeli suspected of espionage links with IranHomegrown MoonbatsCarter sees superdelegates prompting Clinton to quitPolitics / GovernmentObama says fuel prices will change car habitsCarter sees superdelegates prompting Clinton to quitObama says Clinton "stirring up" Florida controversyRepublican primary in Idaho. Full coverage of the 2008 electionObama, McCain have "righteous" problemsObama on attack: responses quicken as November loomsHawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye weds in CaliforniaMedia in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the WebSunday news show lineupScience / Medicine and Health / TechnologyClosing in on MarsIce-sampling probe set for Sunday landing on Mars -
VideoSpace station crew may face another bumpy re-entryYahoo buy not a strategy in itself: Microsoft CEOTech execs plan for economic troublesGoldman adds Apple to Americas conviction buy listSingapore's waste: Trash and burnGarbage is dirty, but is it a clean fuel?Blog: Living off the landfillTurning trash into powerWaste seen as feedstock for energyMother NatureTwisters Strike OklahomaVIDEO: Violent Twister Caught on Camera -
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BLOGLarge China Quake Aftershock Injures 260, Kills 1Conference Pledging Aid to Burma's Cyclone VictimsMan, 76, Becomes Oldest Person to Climb Mount EverestRescued Divers Recount Ordeal of Floating Lost -
VIDEOG8 summit emission cut target likely "aspirational"Race for Antarctic krill a test for green managementStatoilHydro says North Sea oil leak haltedVattenfall to build carbon capture test plantExxon again cuts funds for climate change skepticsVideo: Anger over rain forest damUS sets condition for aid: unhindered accessWeather cooperates in California wildfire fightOddities
Mystery deepens as 4th severed foot foundWarning issued over unlicensed sex drugsOther News of NoteU.S. lifts travel warning for IndonesiaUAE ready to boost oil output when neededFox NewsFOXBusiness: Gas Stunts Holiday Travel -
GAS TRACKERTV's 'Laugh-In' Comic Dick Martin Dies at 86ReutersPope urges help for hungry ahead of food summitCeltics power to road win over PistonsMugabe changes tactics ahead of run-off electionTech sector sees more dealsHousing bill helpful but no panaceaConsumer not so cash-strapped after allBuffett blames banks for credit crisisHonda's CEO gears up for next hybrid raceSony says develops cost-efficient solar cellsAricom to raise $1 bln to expand in RussiaSwiss bank body raising capital requirementsInBev working on $46 bln Anheuser bid: sourceEmirates NBD eyes RBS stake in Saudi affiliateFiat in cooperation talks with Chrysler: reportFrench classroom film lifts gloom as Cannes closesDe Niro sends up Hollywood and Cannes in new filmSinatra still the chairman with hit albumVideo: Rising music star from Ivory CoastCalderon to tackle Acapulco stinkRed Wings' experience pays offCeltics power to road win over PistonsMickelson regains control at ColonialIndians end seven-game skid with win over RangersHole in one puts Jimenez in front at PGA ChampionshipAssociated PressNo more Fedspeak on further interest rate cutsEastwood, Jolie in running for Cannes prizesDjokovic advances at French OpenSamuelsson, Red Wings beat Penguins in Cup openerCeltics beat Pistons in Detroit; lead series 2-1News BlazePHOTOS: Crowd Gathers in Jamilla for Iraqi Army AssistanceIA Soldiers Seize Caches in Sadr CitySoldiers' Angels and Patriot GuardIraq NewsOperations in IraqFOB Warhorse Memorial PhotosVideosCENTCOMPetraeus appears before Armed Services CommitteeOdierno speaks to Senate at confirmation hearingFirst class graduates from Ashraf police academyTroops, State Dept. aid Iraqi mill ownerUSJFCOMTask Force Ramadi helps free enterprise take hold in IraqCommand unveils new command and control vision -
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podcastJoint Forces Reserve Officer Orientation Course beginsMulti-National Force - IraqWith Water Flowing, Soldiers Solving Traffic Flow ProblemsCoalition Forces, Iraqi Officials Preplan Improvements in FallujahGovernment of Iraq Making ProgressNational Guard Soldiers Attend Combat Lifesaver ClassMND-B Soldiers seize weapons caches, detain two criminals (Baghdad)Iraqi Police received more than 2,000 police vehicles in 2008 through Foreign Military Sales programIA Soldiers seize caches in Sadr CityThree bombing cell suspects, 18 others detainedMND-SE holds memorial for fallen Marine (Fallujah)MND-N Soldiers host driver training course for Iraqi Army Soldiers (FOB Dagger)DefenseLinkMullen Tells Academy Grads, Stand Up for What's Right -
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PhotosBush Praises 82nd Paratroopers, Families, Veterans at Fort BraggBush Honors 82nd Airborne Division Soldiers’ Courage, SacrificePetraeus Shares Central Command ChallengesUSS Boxer Crew to Spend Memorial Day Weekend Providing Aid to El SalvadorMilitary to Integrate Gaming Into TrainingIraqi Security Forces Grow StrongNew Anbar Government Center OpensTroops in Iraq Kill Six, Detain 54U.S. Soldiers Train Afghan Border PatrolBush Urges Americans to Honor Holiday's MeaningArlington ‘Flags In’ Tribute Begins CommemorationCommentary: Memorial Day vs. Veterans DayMullen to Troops: Remember Cost of FreedomFamilies See Progress at Pentagon Memorial Comrades, Loved Ones Contemplate SacrificeArmy Psychiatrist Calls Efforts to Reduce Mental Health Care Stigma a 'Total Team Effort'New Program Offers ‘Care for Caregivers’Wounded Warrior Leads Medical BattalionChallenge Coins Thank Vets, Help Nonprofit GroupsChrysler Supports MacArthur MemorialJudd Rocks Walter Reed -
PhotosWeatherAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGermanyAnsbach Aschaffenburg Berlin Berlin-Tempelhof Berlin/Schonefeld BremerhavenDarmstadt Frankfurt Frankfurt/Main Freiburg/Breisgau GarmischGarmisch-Partenkirchen Geilenkirchen Gelnhausen Giessen KitzingenHanau Am Main Heidelberg Mainz Mannheim Nurnberg Stuttgart TrierWiesbaden WurzburgGitmoGuamAgana Agana Heights Agat Andersen AFB Asan BarrigadaIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al KutAn Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfJapanKadena Air Base Okinawa Tokyo YokohamaToday in History
585BC - 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse
1085 - King Alfonso VI of Castily/León occupy Toledo on Moren
1241 - 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1522 - Emperor Karel I returns to Spain
1632 - Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
1659 - Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector
1660 - English King Charles II lands in Dover
1720 - "Le Grand St. Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
1721 - John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
1784 - Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787 - Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
1793 - Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st US Roman Catholic priest ordained
1810 - Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day)
1812 - Earthquake destroys Caracas Venezuela
1844 - 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
1861 - John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus; it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting the writ
1862 - Battle of Winchester, VA
1864 - Battle of New Hope Church, GA
1887 - Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
1895 - Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
1898 - 1st US troop transport to Manila leaves San Fransisco
1900 - Eyre M. Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in the Olympics
1911 - Revolution in México overthrows President José Porfirio Diaz
1914 - British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
1915 - 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
1919 - Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap
1923 - Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
1927 - Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
1928 - Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
1935 - Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
1937 - 1st airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York
1940 - German troops conquer Boulogne; Golden Gate International Expo reopens
1941 - 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
1943 - Riot at Mobile, AL shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers; Trident conference in Washington, DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
1944 - Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
1945 - Arther C. Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
1946 - Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan; Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1947 - Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Company's Mine #5 killing 111
1949 - Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
1950 - Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1953 - 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat NV
1955 - Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall KS & most of Blackwell OK
1959 - Khrushchev visits Angola; Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional
1962 - US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
1963 - Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
1964 - Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitutional
1965 - India & Pakistan border fights
1966 - Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
1968 - Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated
1969 - Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
1973 - Argentine Peronist Hector Cámpora installed as president
1973 - US launches 1st Skylab; crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
1978 - "Star Wars" released
1979 - American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275; Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
1981 - Daniel Goodwin, scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
1982 - Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
1983 - "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released; 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed; Fire in Nassermeer, Egypt, kills 357
1985 - Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
1986 - Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed; Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York; Virgilio Barco elected President of Colombia
1989 - Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1991 - Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
1992 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected President of Italy
Birthdays
1550 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint
1713 - John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, English premier (1760-63)
1781 - Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Este/Governor-General (Sicily)
1852 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey [Desperate Frankey], French marshal (WWI)
1865 - Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18); John Raleigh Mott, organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946); Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902)
1886 - Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
1889 - Igor Sikorsky developed a working helicopter
1892 - Josip Broz Tito Kumrovec, leader of Yugoslavia (1945-80)
1907 - U Nu, Premier of Burma (1948-58, 1960-62)
1932 - Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
1934 - Ron Nesson, press secretary (Gerald Ford)
1943 - Wynand C. Malan, South African lawyer/NP/DP-politician
1949 - Jamaica Kincaid [Elaine P. Richardson], Antigua/US journalist (New Yorker)
Passings0615 - Boniface IV, Pope (608-15)
0709 - Aldhelmus of Ealdhelm, abbot/bishop/poet/saint, dies at about 69
0946 - Edmund the Older, King of Wessex/England (939-46)
1085 - Gregory VII [Ildebrando], Pope (1073-85)
1125 - Hendrik V, last Salische German King
1261 - Alexander IV [Rinaldo dei conti di Segni], Pope (1254-61)
1510 - Georges d'Amboise French cardinal/viceroy in North Italy, dies at 49
1849 - Andreas Michiels, Dutch Military Governor of West Sumatra, dies in battle at 52
1895 - Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish minister of Justice, dies at 73
1926 - Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47
1949 - Simon H. Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WWII), dies at 47
1968 - George KFW von Küchler, German marshal (Netherlands 1940), dies at 86
1986 - Chester Bowles, US senator/ambassador, dies at 85
1992 - Philip C. Habib, US diplomat (Middle-East/Asia), dies at 72; Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78
1996 - David W Howe test pilot, dies at 77
1997 - Muhammad Fadhel, PM of Iraq (1953-54)
Reported Missing in Action1965 Harnawee, Tha Chan "Chip," Thai Special Forces / Air America (Thailand); released September, 1974 - alive and well as of 1998
1967Graves, Richard C.,
USNR (MA); A1H crashed
1969Weitz, Monek,
USMC (MA); KIA / BNR
Williams, Leroy C.,
USMC (FL); KIA / BNR
1970Springman, Richard Harold,
US Army (CA); released by PRG February, 1973 - alive as of 1996
1972Strong, Henry H.,
USN (PA); A4F shot down
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